old MirOS News

Our main cvs and mailing list server, herc.mirbsd.org, has some
hardware problems at the moment. This means that the mailing lists
are down until further notice. Anonymous CVS access (not from allbsd.org),
this website, and BitTorrent are working fine though.

Read/write CVS access to CVS for developers will be restored in one
or two days, making tg@’s SPARCstation the temporary CVS master.

Waldemar Brodkorb (wbx@) has donated hardware to act as a supplemental
AnonCVS/AnonRSYNC server, which is being initialised and tested right
now, as the hosting site only accepts boxen that have passed a typical
stress test. Eventually, this box will act as a secondary mail server
as well.

Update (2007-08-24): We’re almost back to normal,
the server hardware has changed a little until proper replacement can
be used (with proper, I mean replacing the IDE crap with SCSI, etc.
while we’re at replacing anyway, and actually investing some – well, a
lot of – money and effort). Mailing lists work again, and commits will
be enabled for developers during short timeframes a few times per day,
with immediate rsync actions being taken afterwards just to be on the
safe side. This however means: FrOSCon CDs will contain older versions
of MirOS, big financial loss for us, and MirOS #10 will be delayed for
a yet unknown amount of time (but sparc is finally ready since 23rd).